A Survivor’s Experience With Melanoma and Immunotherapy

This article summarizes Bryant Wieneke’s experiences with melanoma, which he had shared with Cancer.Net in 2017.

Have you seen the movie As Good As It Gets? In the American romantic comedy from 1997, Melvin (Jack Nicholson) accuses Carol (Helen Hunt) of removing him from her life. That’s how it felt when Bryant Wieneke first learned he had stage IV melanoma. It was May 2016 and cancer had plucked him and his wife, Elvira, away from their lives and forced them into an unfamiliar territory overwhelmed with not only medical professionals and constant blood draws, but also with fear, confusion, …read more